Unnamed Lady Poet
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Unnamed Lady Poet
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Unnamed Lady Poet
AKA:
Djuna Barnes
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Indeterminable
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Other
Specific Job:
Writer
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Sunday, June 12, 1892
Origin:
New York
Biography:
The real name of the writer whom Gavin Stevens calls "a sound sensitive lady poet of the time of my youth" (191) is Djuna Barnes, well known in the era between the World Wars as part of the Modernist movement in the arts. Today she is best known as the author of the lesbian novel Nightwood (1936), but she was also a visual artist, a journalist and, as Gavin's description says, a poet. The lines he quotes are taken, with a line omitted, from Barnes' poem "To the Dead Favourite of Liu Ch'e" (1920).
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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